Also in 1902, a railway line from Crowhurst to the Bexhill West terminus station was completed, which ran on an embankment just to the west of the house. The new shop continued to be occupied by a butcher, but now owned by F. H. Pilbeam. Subsequently the area became known as Pilbeam’s Corner.
The garden was large enough to allow for another small "L" shaped building to be added a short distance from the house, facing onto the London Road (previously called North Street), and this seems to have been a stable and cart house, possibly with facilities for the slaughter of animals destined for the shop. It is likely that this stable building was built at much the same time as the rebuilt house and shop (1908) which was now known as “Sussex House”.
The first use of the stable block as a separate entity from “Sussex House” was some forty years later when the butchers shop became a retailer of fish & chips and an asphalt contractor was recorded as the occupier of the stable building, separately listed as 129A London Road, Bexhill.
Later records dated 1953 indicate that this stable/workshop building was occupied by F.G.Nichols 'Motor Engineers' and Frank was also shown as owner/occupier of “Sussex House”. The owner/occupier of the house changed in 1956 to E. J. Nichols being Frank’s brother John. The fried fish business continued, now run by a tenant Gordon Buss, and it stayed as a fish & chip shop under various tenancies until the end! In more recent times it was called “The Viking Fish Bar”.
By 1956, the FGN motor engineering business located in the old stable block had became known as the London Road Garage (Bexhill) Ltd., complete with a single petrol pump providing the sale of fuel to the locals. During those early years the garage provided general motor repairs, welding, spraying etc., mostly for pre-WW2 vehicles.